“Hirunehime” Chosen as Opening Film for Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival

At the latest press conference for the upcoming Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2017 held in Sapporo yesterday, it was announced that the anime feature film Hirunehime -Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari- (Princess Nap -The Story of Unknown Me-) was chosen as the opening film for the internationally popular event.

The Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)-directed film will be screened with English subtitles on the festival’s opening day, March 2. In its 26th year, the festival is scheduled to screen 86 films for five days till March 6. Then the 110-minute film will get a theatrical release in Japan on March 18.